MIGHTY TRENDING
Beatrice Christofaro

Diver who rescued Thai soccer team needed rescuing himself in Tennessee

Rescuer turned rescuee this week as a British diver involved in saving the trapped Thai soccer team last year needed the help of emergency services himself when he got trapped in a cave in Tennessee, The Guardian reported.

Josh Bratchley was rescued on April 17, 2019, after spending more than a day underground. Bratchley was part of the British cave diving team that helped in the high profile rescue of 12 Thai school boys and their soccer coach from the flooded Tham Luang cave last summer.

He had explored a cave in Jackson County, Tennessee on April 16, 2019, but failed to return to surface with the rest of his group at around 3.00 p.m. His fellow divers alerted 911 at 1.00 a.m. the next morning.

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MIGHTY TRENDING
Kelly McLaughlin

An ROTC cadet is losing his scholarship because he's transgender

A student in Texas said he is losing his Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) scholarship to University of Texas at Austin because of new transgender military policies.

Map Pesqueira, a freshman at UT-Austin and a transgender man, said he initially received a three-year ROTC scholarship to the school that was supposed to go into effect his sophomore year, NBC News reported.

But he was told earlier this month that due to the transgender military policy that went into effect April 12, 2019, he is disqualified from the ROTC.

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MIGHTY HISTORY
Frank Olito

11 'facts' you learned about US history that are false

Some things you've learned in school may have since been proven false, and that is especially true when it comes to US history.

Many say history is written by the winner, leaving much of the truth out. In recent years, historians and experts have been coming forward to reveal the true stories around some of America's biggest historical events.

From the first Thanksgiving to the moon landing, here's everything your teacher may have gotten wrong about American history.

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MIGHTY HISTORY
Gabbi Shaw

7 historical figures still plagued by crazy conspiracy theories

Conspiracy theories usually reside in some pretty dark corners of the internet, but every now and then one will become part of the mainstream.

And conspiracy theories have been around for thousands of years — look no further than Jesus Christ himself for speculation about his relationship with Mary Magdalene. Also, ask anyone with a passing interest in the assassination of John F. Kennedy about the grassy knoll, and you'll need to prepare for a torrent of information and conjecture.

Keep scrolling to learn more about these historical figures that have been followed, some for centuries, by wild conspiracy theories.

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MIGHTY TRENDING
Ashley Collman

Marine vet crawled across Boston Marathon finish line, honored fallen friends

A Marine veteran crawled across the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2019, after his legs gave out late in the race.

Micah Herndon, of Tallmadge, Ohio, persisted because he was running in honor of three friends who died in an IED attack in Afghanistan.

"The pain that I was going through is nothing compared to the pain that they went through," Herndon told CBS Boston.

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MIGHTY MOVIES
Kim Renfro

'Game of Thrones' composer has watched final season 'hundreds of times'

"Game of Thrones" composer Ramin Djawadi has been a central craftsmen of HBO's iconic series since the very first episode. For the coming final season, he's keeping the secrets of the score close to his chest.

"I don't know if I should … or what I can even say at this point," Djawadi told INSIDER at the season eight premiere in New York City last week when asked if there are any new instruments we'll hear on season eight. "I can say there are new themes, definitely, and there are plenty of the existing themes as well, with new iterations."

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MIGHTY MOVIES
Callie Ahlgrim

Captain Marvel explains where she's been in first 'Avengers: Endgame' clip

On April 8, 2019, Marvel previewed the first clip from "Avengers: Endgame" on ABC's "Good Morning America."

The video begins with Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), realizing that Thanos has used the stones again.

Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), jumps in to insist they team up and "get him" and use the stones "to bring everyone back." She says it'll be different this time because now, she's involved.

James Rhodes, aka War Machine (Don Cheadle), gets annoyed and asks Captain Marvel to explain where she's been all this time.

"There are a lot of other planets in the universe," she responds. "And unfortunately, they didn't have you guys."

Bruce Banner, aka Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), seems very apprehensive about the plan, but what else is new?

Watch the scene below. The clip begins at 2:51.

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MIGHTY TRENDING
David Choi

FBI arrested instagram 'troll' accused of impersonating Parkland shooter

Prosecutors have accused a man of sending threatening and harassing messages on Instagram to relatives and friends of people killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Brandon Fleury, a resident of Santa Ana, California, said he sent the threatening messages for nearly three weeks using numerous Instagram accounts, according to a criminal complaint filed in the US District Court of Southern Florida and seen by INSIDER.

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MIGHTY TRENDING
Alexandra Ma

France releases photo of terror suspect, want him dead or alive

French police released a photo of the suspected gunman in Dec. 11, 2018's terror attack at a Christmas market in Strasbourg, as a 36-hour manhunt continues.

A lone gunman killed two people, left one brain dead, and injured 12 others in the attack, which took place when stallholders were preparing to close down around 8 p.m.

Police on Dec. 12, 2018, identified the suspect as Cherif Chekatt, a 29-year-old man born in Strasbourg. They released a photo of him on Dec. 12, 2018 in a call for witnesses.

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